CAD 13

This craft isn't done. What youre viewing is. A sweater from goodwill which I'm felting into the outside of a bag. My eco conscience Ellen wont let me run the washer just for this one peice so I have to do it laundry load by load. The first Leicester is a deconstructed part of the sweater so you can see what felting does. I found 3 100% wool sweaters this week. One was a real massive pain to deconstuct. The next is UN feltable for some reason. Then there's this one which is beautiful and felting nicely.

I'm getting to where my productivity is slowing because I have more time intense peices.

My recent obsession is felting. I went and used my michaels coupons on 4different colors of wool. I'm been playing with making zipper bags with them. They crotchet super quickly. But when I see etsy bags, I get distracted with my goal BC I want to mimic those. Ah, Tue joys of an ADD crafter!

CAD 11

Patrick henry high school junior varsity volleyball cell phone holder. Voila!

CAD #10

A felted clutch! Button, pocket, lining, magneting clasp. Mustard yellow, brown, and tan. So cute!

CAD 9

A simple classic: sparkly black felt w bead broach. Or, you could attach it to a headband... anyway you wear it, it's that added bit of class or detail you needed.

CAD #8

Today's craft is an antique bronze set of earrings. I love these because they're so simple and eloquent. Once home from the reunion, I'm going to really work on a few necessary crafts: a new living room chair cover, a table cloth and chair cover set for the sewing room... things like that.

The reunion was wonderful. I'll post a couple pictures once home.

CAD #7

And now, my master work: sessters laptop bag. I'm beyond proud of this beautiful peice. It's industrial and functional. Pretty and hardy.

What you see is burgundy canvas with jessica levitt fabrics accenting the outside. The bat fabric is on the strap pillow as well as on the outside details. Zipper to close. I'm super proud of this one.

CAD 6

Here's my lovely felted zippy. I love it. So much. It reminds me of camping with its tan and brown. The slight yellow is that little bit of color, while the blue bead is useful and gives a pop of playfulness.

KY is wonderful. There is so much great food. So far I've loved the napa cabbage salad and the lemon pie. Although my favorite family sweet will always be opera fudge, aunt vick has the nicest pies and cakes. Be it prune, lemon or cokacola. Nom!

CAD 5

And here is a felt flower and yellow button broach. I'm loving working with felt because my first love is crochet/knitting, and felting uses those. The 2 bags I have are nearly done. Those will probably be sold, although I love both of them.

And, I love the needle lady shop in cville's downtown mall for having smaller balls of wool in great colors. Specifically, a shout out to colleen for helping me!

CAD #4

Todays craft is really close to my heart. My seester and I brainstormed this beautiful creation. Its Gran's legacy necklace. The four beads represent her two girls and her two grandchildren. Tapaz for aunt v, varrying purple amethyists for mom, seester and me. Moms is earthy with layers, seesters is on an antique finding and brass like her hair. Mine is simple silver. The funniest part to me is that the metal of the necklace is called 'Gun metal', so even uncle rick is represented. I love this part. I hope he and gran do, too.

Tomorrow we travel for the family reunion. Each day I'll post a different craft I've made for each family member. Seesters will be a long one bc I have a ton of pictures for it.

CAD#3 8.3.2010

Its very late and after a midnight meeting with seester about kentucky music, I felt the sewing room calling my name.

I'm still on the hunt for the perfect jewelry for gran, but until I get there, little beauties seem to keep popping up.

I like the lime and brown of these. It's a shame I don't have better wire to wrap with... Then, my wire would match my ear hooks. One day I'll get fancy and coordinate all the jewelry making correctly.

As esty is going, it seems that earrings, passport covers, and hobo bags are definites. I'd love to get felted accessories in there too,but I'm not having the luck i'd hoped for with the final product of my felting. Well, except for this one beautiful felted ball. I really should use him somewhere.

Also, did you know you can turn your cat's fur into yarn? Oh man, I'm all about this crazy idea in theory. Brush kitty and collect in paper bag-the brushings, not random hair from the floor of your home. Once you've got enough you can wet felt or hand felt into a creation or just work into a yarn. There are also people on etsy who will create yarn for you if you ship them your kittys fur. Whoa! That's almost too weird. Even for me and my beloved Cole. I love her... but not that much.

CAD #2 8.2.2010

Wire wrapped tree art.

I'm thinking this would be a cool ornament. May be ill make a set of these for family for xmas.

Also, I think if I can make them smaller, then they'd be great as a pendant. Id just need to hammer some firmer wire for the outside.

CAD 8.1.2010: the coffee sleeve prototype.

victory is mine!

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